Futurism

What if you have a choice? What if you have a chance? A hope? Will you choose to try?

Previous Information Revolutions gave mortals the knowledge and leverage to become influential and valuable. 3rd Information Revolution will make us Gods.

Mechanization of life, transport hubs, shopping malls, importance of soft skills – a short list of predictions made by G. H. Wells more than 100 years ago

“First I will look at his photo, then I will look at his profile,” she said. “He has to use real-name authentication. But I will trust him and talk to him if he has Sesame Credit.”

Just as smartphone transformed the way we use mobile, so did Uber transform private transportation industry. Now you can expect accurate, fast and professional

We live in "modern advanced societies" where your place of birth and the color of your skin still defines your fate. Technology will give us an alternative.

How are we planning to compete with General Artificial Intelligence? The million-dollar question is: should we?

Designer babies and genes alteration are slowly becoming a norm. Why would you risk having a bouquet of inherited diseases if you can just shuffle through millions of spermatozoids and find an infallible winner?

The “Mars Colony” list is closing in 3 months. 90 people have already reserved their seats and now the final round of examinations are provided for the microbiologists and multidisciplinary problem solvers.

If AI looked to play God's role in handpicking certain individuals to keep alive, it will be guided by rationale which we, as humans, would find incomprehensible. Would AI decide to preserve the most intelligent representatives of the human nation? Would those be scientists and innovators? Would AI want to preserve the richest and most successful representatives of Capitalistic systems, like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos? Or would AI be looking to preserve the peculiarities of human nature, such as serial killers, dictators, pedophiles, crypto scammers and schizophrenics? It might be all of those or none of those, since we would have no insight into the black box of Superintelligence’s cognition.